On a personal note, hubby likes dark chocolate and I bought him some by Hershey’s — there’s a select version in a gold bag? We also have added eating a lot more nuts to our diet.

Anyway, when he had his cholesterol checked, the good cholesterol was so high that the doc told him there was nothing to do!

Yeah chocolate and nuts

Pat Cochran

I’ve developed a love of Green and Blacks Hazelnut and Currant dark chocolate bars but it means driving all the way across town to get it and have you SEEN the price of gas? I stock up when I go get my haircut cuz it’s right down the road (and threaten my children with bodily injury if they touch it—luckily it’s not sweet enough for them). hehehe

Chocolate is a vegetable

Chocolate is derived from cacao beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS. Both are plants, which place them in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.
To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So candy bars are a health food.
Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.
The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It’ll take the edge off your appetite, and you’ll eat less.
If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves. (We’re testing this with other snack foods as well.)
If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don’t they actually counteract each other?
Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Therefore, you need to eat more chocolate.
Put “eat chocolate” at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you’ll get one thing done.
A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn’t that handy?
If you can’t eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can’t eat all your chocolate, what’s wrong with you?
If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated. You can’t let that happen, can you?

There’s other ways to get chocolate too. Most pumpernickle bread is made with cocoa. (at least all the recipes I’ve seen – used to give it that distinctive dark color) Mole is made with cocoa too I think.